A panel which covers the underside of an roof overhang, cantilever, or mansard.

A central clearing house for Britain's charities. Allows supporters to make tax-efficient donations.

The purchase of accepted term Bills of Exchange at a discount to allow for the funding of the advance from the discount date until the maturity date of the bills.

The interaction between the stages of a centrifugal compressor. When a multi-stage compressor is designed, each stage can operate at only one point its characteristic curve. The point is determine by the design conditions of temperature, flow and pressur ...

Metric Tons. Unit of weight : metric tons of 1000 kilograms.

The requirement that an electric power utility generate or purchase a specified percentage of the power it supplies/sells from renewable energy resources, and thereby guarantee a market for electricity generated from renewable energy resources.

Contraction for pilot balloon observation.

The processing of the form or mode of a signal so as to make it intelligible to, or compatible with, a given device.

The lowest charge that can be assessed to transport a shipment.

Machines in which compression is effected by the positive action of rotating elements.

A time or a date draft that has been accepted by the buyer (the drawee) for payment at maturity.

A bank account which offers a number of facilities including cheque book for debt.

The yield on a security purchased at a price below its face.

Bread that was supplied to ships before bakeries were introduced on board.

The westerly distance in an arc from Aries, measured as an angle at the pole or as the intercepted arc of the equinoctial between the hour angle of Aries and the hour angle of the body.

Said of a vessel that is firm, strong, and unlikely to develop leaks.

A value used to estimate interior air cooling requirements (load) calculated as the number of degrees per day (over a specified period) that the daily average temperature is above 65 degrees Fahrenheit (or some other, specified base temperature). The dail ...

The setting of the price (which then remains fixed) for forward dealing. This occurs at the time.

Waves breaking over rocks or shoals. A wave that approaches shallow water, causing the wave height to exceed the depth of the water it is in, in effect tripping it. The wave changes from a smooth surge in the water to a cresting wave with water tumbling d ...

A breakwater used as a landing pier.